Coming Up Roses

Release on 2012-06-01 | by Sarah Laing

COMING. UP. ROSES. I. magine Not just that a you're demographic: a statistic. a white girl living in a white suburb with a white picket fence and a white fridge that you just cleaned with some white Jif. No, imagine that you are the ...

Coming Up Roses
  • Author: Sarah Laing
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
  • ISBN: 9781869798789
  • Category: Fiction
  • Page: 271
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Coming Up Roses

Prize-winning writer Sarah Laing has written a superb collection of stories that are beautifully written, vividly rendered and which stimulate and surprise. 'Imagine that you're a statistic,' says one of the characters in these quirky, haunting stories of people whose inner lives let them escape the boxes that others put them into. The single mum, the student working in the pie factory, the newborn baby, the dying woman, the Kiwi alone in New York and many others pass through these stories and in doing so let us enter their lives.

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